Link? All I see on FUN's twitter is them acting stupid and blaming TB. And his Twitter just says that it's in the hands of Polaris now. I don't think it's likely a legit claim but the behaviour of the FUN Twitter operator has been smug condescending and accusatory all at once which really doesn't help their case.2xDouble said:Both TB and FUN have stated through discussions on Twitter that this was not an action by the company, but an individual claiming to be an employee.
This isn't a new form of control. It's been around and Steam treats it as totally legit, along with censoring negative criticisms, etc.erttheking said:And funnily enough, for some reason you can only post in the Steam forums if you own the game. Like the dev team is trying to keep all of TB's fans from raging at them. Classy.
EA have done that, quite recently too. Want to give Dungeon Keeper Mobile 5 stars? Sure, go ahead. Want to give them 0-4 stars? Send them your feedback but don't rate it.agent9 said:TB sends them a form in which they ask the company permission to review the game with express purpose of monetizing said review. if everything is a go he makes the video if not he moves on. they are very much in the wrong on this one as they already made their bed with TB, now they have to sleep in it. it's also censorship in an attempt to deceive customers and control their own ratings which I would say is borderline illegal. it matters not where they're coming from, if EA did this we would demand their heads on a pike.
Read this from Angry Joe, the response from that company re the block on Total Biscuits site - dont know how to embed it so if it shows as a link maybe you can use it as an update on your thread.Mangod said:snip
"Our company is a lot smaller than your little channel."Sunrider84 said:https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/434775923490295809
It just keeps getting better!
The law would disagree with you there. If only 'certain people' get to do reviews, who decides what the 'certain people' are? Some kind of licensing body? Who funds it? You can bet your ass that in that kind of scenario the answer to who decides would rapidly become the publishers decide.krazykidd said:but i do believe only certain people should be allowed to " review" games not every tom, dick and harry with a camera ( i'm not saying that's what total biscuit is).
Mm, yes. Gods forbid a PC-centric games reviewer actually reviews games centred around things PC gamers want.TheBelgianGuy said:At least Yathzee is actually funny. I cringe whenever TB starts showing a game and spend 20min in the options screen.